AND LOWER EGYPT. I Qj 



cat *, which is not much better ; the palamides^ a 

 species of small tunny-)-; the pointed fish which 

 they call the eel%^ and the mullet ^ t which you 

 see frisking about in calm weather, in shoals innu- 

 merable, on the surface of the water. They like- 

 wise catch there that fish which on the tables of 

 the Romans occupied a distinguished place, and 

 to which they gave the name of wolf, from its vo- 

 raciousness |j. The seamen of Provence call it 

 carousse. I have had a drawing made of one of 

 those fishes, which was two feet and a half long. 

 (See plate III.) Its head was bluish; it had red 

 spots on the opercles of the gills, and the body of 

 a blue blackish, and shaded with gray; these tints 

 were deep above the lateral line, and clearer un- 

 der it, with a yellowish mixture. Finally, what 

 is more interesting to the lovers of good cheer, 

 you may cat excellent roaches thereof. 



* Squalus dorsovario ; pinnis ventralibus concretis. Arted. Gen. 

 4.4. — Squalus catulus. Lin. 



■j- Scomber pelamis, fiinnulis inferioribus septem ; corf ore lineis 

 utrinque quatuor n'v^ris. Arted. Gen. 25. — Scomber pelamis. Lin. 



% Esox rostro cuspidato, gracilis subteriti, spitl.amali. Arted. 

 Gen. 10. — Eiox belone. Lin. 



§ Trigla capite glabra lineis utrinque quatuor luteis Jo'igitudini- 

 hbus /jatallclis. Arted. Gen. 171. — Mullus surmuletus. Lin. 



|| Perca labrax, pinnis rtorsalibus distinctis, secunda? radii qua' 

 tuordecim. Arted. Gen. Pise. 30. — Perca labrax. Lin. 



^ Trigla capite glabra, cin is geminis in maxilla inferior:. Arted. 

 Gen. 171. — Mullus barbatus. Lin. 



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